Want to be assured of getting your mitts on Nokia's Windows 7 netbook, the Booklet 3G? The Finnish phone giant is now taking advance orders for the pricey product, which, it says, will ship in January.
Designed to be sold by network operators and retailers, all of whom will subsidise the hardware on the back of monthly 3G data …

Myst-all-Chucking-Frighty!!!

What the hell is happening? Is someone trying to sabotage the company?

If they sell more than a couple of thousand, I'll be staggered. Even worse will be their after-sales costs, because the prats who buy this won't know how to use it and will be 'phoning the helpline every 5 minutes.

Unless that's the business model, and they stick the helpline on a premium rate, Ryanair-style. Ahhh, it's starting to get clearer...